User:MJMcKay
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Overview
I'm a professional general manager with experience in government and industry. I've recently been the CEO of a manufacturing plant for digital cameras and, currently, the Executive Director of the Ottawa Flying Club. I got involved with open source software through a contract with eseri.com which provides a fully open-source corporate IT solution.
Domain Expertise
As a general manager, I deal with the high-level issues facing corporations in areas of strategy, finance, HR, R&D, marketing, operations and stakeholder relations. I have an MBA from the University of Ottawa and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Military College.
I truly enjoy improving the operating performance of organizations.
I've been involved in software and databases since punched cards, FORTRAN and dbase II.
Adempiere Implementations
I've completed my first implementation of ADempiere at the Ottawa Flying Club. ADempiere replaced a collection of software used to manage the booking system, POS and accounting functions. These legacy systems did not talk to each other and required hand transcription from one to the other. Management information was dispersed across the systems and very difficult to access. ADempiere has improved the efficiency of the organization substantially while also increasing the accuracy of management and performance related information. The complexity of the system does take time up-front but, in the long run, being able to customize the capabilities will save us tremendous amounts of time while reducing errors in processing. For example, I've been able to automate the generation of tax forms which follow very complex rules and interpretations. See here. The same goes for calculating tax adjustments and input tax credits. A little up-front work and these complex problems are replaced by a mouse click.
In February 2011, we successfully completed our first full financial audit with the new system. It was a bit involved considering the new system chart of accounts changes but all the information was there and I was able to answer every question based on the data. Next year, I hope to repeat the success in a fraction of the time.
Adempiere Contributions
I'm still learning but have been adding to the wiki and identifying bugs where I can.
I used code_swarm software to put together a short video showing the history of the ADempiere Source Forge Project.
